There’s a lot of confusion around 23andMe: Is the company still in business? Is it now owned by Regeneron, the biotech company that once tried to buy it? Are its genetic test kits still available for sale? And if you’re a customer, what happens to your data? It’s been about a year since 23andMe plummeted…
What do actor James Franco, former NBA player Jeremy Lin and writer Lisa Brennan-Jobs have in common? They were all students of Esther Wojcicki. Beyond raising future Silicon Valley leaders like Anne and Susan Wojcicki, the educator spent decades pioneering a media program at Palo Alto High School. Watching her students thrive has been “the best…
After years of speculation and quiet succession planning, Apple announced yesterday (April 20) that Tim Cook will step down as CEO in September and be replaced by John Ternus, Apple’s current head of hardware engineering. Cook will transition into the role of executive chairman and welcome Ternus to the board. Needless to say, this is…
Today, Boston Dynamics’ robot dogs—which cost up to $300,000 each—are already patrolling data centers across the United States, guarding the infrastructure powering Big Tech’s generative A.I. The companies building the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence are entrusting its protection to robots. A.I. is, in effect, guarded by robots that themselves run on A.I. There is…
For a while, A.I. enjoyed the rare privilege of being sold as everything all at once: a productivity tool, a growth story, a labor-saving device and, by implication, a cleaner, smarter way of running a business. It was the corporate miracle diet. It helped cut costs, increase output, automate the boring bits and, somehow, remain…
Anthropic began restructuring its leadership and organization in early 2026 as it prepares for a potential IPO. The company, which could go public as early as October at a valuation of up to $630 billion, has recently pulled ahead of competitors in revenue. Its annualized run rate (a prediction of annual revenue based on current…
The tradition of surrealist photography has always aimed to provoke the wonder, curiosity and healthy discomfort of being in a dream. Today, a surreal photo might elicit a knee-jerk accusation: “This is A.I.-generated.” It’s one of the things A.I. has gotten increasingly good at: making outlandish ideas into images that look like real photographs, in…
Jimmy Donaldson, a North Carolina native known to most of the world as “MrBeast,” represents peak success in the creator economy, having turned his YouTube following into a global media empire. Even with an Amazon Prime series, a thriving CPG brand and a theme park in Saudi Arabia, the mega-creator is still investing deeply in…
The emergence of bad actors such as insider traders is inevitable on prediction markets, according to Tarek Mansour, the co-founder and CEO of Kalshi. But the executive isn’t worried about such behavior sullying his business. “There’s always going to be bad actors. The goal is to just squash them,” Mansour said during an onstage interview…
We are framing A.I. and cybercrime the wrong way. Most discussions still treat A.I. as a tool used by fraudsters, but the larger threat is that A.I. is beginning to execute critical parts of fraud itself. This shift is happening in parallel with a larger industry push toward autonomous A.I. agents, systems designed to plan,…
